Some 17% of 1,500 households surveyed across the U.K. said that the value of their home had risen over the last month, while 5.3% said that prices had fallen. This resulted in a HPSI reading of 55.8. Any mark above 50 is considered positive.

This, however, represented a slight fall compared with the 56.1 recorded in December, though it remains above the post-referendum low of 48.3 in July.

“The continued rise in the future sentiment index indicates that households are not focusing solely on the uncertainty around the path to Brexit,” said Gráinne Gilmore, head of U.K. residential research at Knight Frank.

“The economic fundamentals in the U.K. are relatively strong, with the country expecting to have experienced the strongest growth in GDP of any country in the G7 for 2016,” she said. “The International Monetary Fund has also revised up its forecasts for economic growth in 2017.”